Jack

I was walking on cloud nine, despite the bruises I could definitely feel now. Alex kissed me. He actually initiated it for once, and dammit if I didn't like the kid already.

I guess this gave me home free for being stupidly cute with him now. I like kissing, and I like kissing Alex more.

“What's got you all happy?” Rian asked when I walked in the house, smiling and humming.
“Alex kissed me.” I said happily.
“How did you even manage.” Rian laughed. “Though, it is nice to see you take a relationship seriously.”
“It's kind of nice to be in one. Why didn't you tell me this is how it felt when you were with that Kara girl?”
“I tried but you never listened.” Rian scolded. “Now sit down and watch some stupid t.v with me.”
“Sir, yes sir.” I chuckled, plopping down next to Rian.

The rest of the week was a blur of me actually going to school just so I could see Alex. I would meet him at his locker, greet him with a kiss, and walk him to his first class. The days usually went through smoothly till we met again in Music class, and worked together or talked, and when Mr. Armstrong was teaching, I'd often reach over just to hold Alex's hand and watch him turn red around the ears. It was...cute.

Once music class was done, Alex always invited me over to his place to do homework and hang out with promises that we can do fun things on the weekends. Which is what we were doing now, friday adfternoon, in his room.

“Lex,” I whined, getting fed up with Math. “It's technically a weekend.”
“Lemme finish this paper and we can do something else.” He laughed. “Besides, you only did lik, ten of your problems.”
“I have never done homework in like, months. I hate you.” I groaned, going back to work.
“Oh shut up, you don't. And you should, don't you want to graduate?” He asked, and I shrugged. “Jack?”
“Yeah?”
“Don't you?”
“I don't really care, Princess.” I sighed. “I don't want to do anything that requires this stuff.”
“Well, what do you want to do?”
“Play music.” I smiled.
“Do you know how hard that is?” Alex asked, looking over at me. “That's like, a one in a million chance.”
“I can do it. I will do it.” I assured.
“But-”
“Don't worry, Lex.” I interrupted. “Besides, I think your mouth could be put to better use.”
Alex blushed catching my meaning, making me only smirk and lean forward to capture his lips with mine. I heard Alex drop his pencil, while one of my hands went up to cup his face. My other arm wrapped around him to pull him closer to me. It was nice that we could shut the door, it was even better that his parent's always knocked before coming in. This made it easier to sneak in these kisses once in awhile.

Alex grabbed a fistful of my shirt, tugging for a moment before pushing my chest.

“J-jack...let me do my homework.” He stuttered out. I smiled and leaned forward again to give him one more light kiss.
“Fine, but hurry up.”

Soon, I had my math done and Alex was finishing up with his paper. I was just watching him scribble the last few lines when I noticed his sleeve rode up a little revealing a dark bruise. Curiously, I went to lift it up higher, and Alex jumped and pulled away quickly.

“What are you doing?” He asked, seeming freaked.
“I saw a bruise, have they not healed up yet?”
“Um...no.” he muttered. “It's just a few, don't worry.”

I frowned, feeling like that wasn't the whole truth but let it go once I saw his paper was done.

“Okay, then let's go! Think you can spend the night again?” I asked, grabbing his hand to yank him off the bed with me.
“Maybe, tomorrow is a Saturday.” Alex laughed as I dragged him out of the room. “What do you wanna do?”
“I was hoping that you, me, Zack, and Ri could hang. Zach wants to have a jam session.” I said, and Alex stopped.
“Zack?” He asked, worried.
“Don't worry, it won't be like last time.” I smiled, slowly letting go of his hand since hi parent's could walk by. “I will never make you do something you don't want, alright?”

Alex smiled, and off we went to get my bike that was down the street and head to my place first. I asked Alex if he wanted me to grab my spare guitar that was in the basement, in case he wanted to try joining in on the jamming. He said no, but I grabbed it anyway. Rian smiled when he saw Alex in my room, walking to tell me it was time to go.

“Hey, Alex. You joining us?” He asked, and Alex nodded. “Sweet, always fun to have an audience.”
“Heck yeah, and Alex can play too. Maybe he can jam with us.” I offered, wrapping an arm around Lex's shoulder. “Isn't that, right Princess?”
“I mostly play classical though...”
“Jack's an amazing guitarist. He can show you the how to of what we play.” Rian assured as we all started to leave.
“Okay.” Alex smiled.

Soon we were at Zack's and he greeted Alex like an old friend. Alex looked at me strangely, and I just said Zack liked him, despite what he may have thought. Plus, I have been telling Zack about what's been going on, and he's nearly has happy as Rian that I was with someone seriously. Not that Alex needs to know that second part.

We all started setting up in the basement of Zack's place, Rian's drums were basically permanently here now. Alex seemed surprised to see that we all played something. Me on guitar, Zack on base, and Rian already starting up on the drums. We were the perfect trio so far, but we still needed a singer if we wanted to be a band. I could do it, but I don't have the best voice in the world. Certainly not good enough to be famous.

So I got an idea.

“Hey Lex, how well do you know that cd I gave you?”
“Um, pretty well. I mean, we've been listening to it all week.” He shrugged.
“Great, get up here.” I commanded and Alex walked up. I handed him a mic, and muttered in his ear. “Just sing, Lex.”

“Alright boys, what should we play?” Rian asked. Zack and I looked at each other and with a smile he asked.
“What's My Age Again?”
“Sound perfect, Ri?” I asked, and he nodded. “Great. Princess, get ready.”

Immediately we all got into it, just building up to when Alex would start singing. I only heard him sing once, and very quickly, but I had a feeling he would be great. Once it was his cue, he started out a little shakey, but got better each time he looked over at me and got a approving smile.

I took her out, it was a Friday night
I wore cologne, to get the feeling right,
We started making out, and she took off my pants
But then I turned on the t.v.
The rest of the song went through perfectly, no one making a single mistake and everything sounded amazing. We tried a few more songs from the album, just proving that Alex's voice was beyond perfect. Once he got comfortable, he was like a God at vocals. Zack even started to do back up, harmonizing perfectly and it was almost as if we were a real band. I could see my dreams becoming reality.

And looks like all they needed was one Alexander Gaskarth.

Notes

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